Its interiors are Alpine-meets-Americana: checkerboard couches with floral embroidered pillows sit among chairs made from maple wood sourced from the forest nearby. Folksy painted motifs, including edelweiss, are painted on wooden banquettes as they would be at Captain Von Trapp’s house. There’s a dash of Japanese minimalism too—from the aforementioned Noguchi lamps to the deliberately sparse, wood-focused design of the guest lodgings.
Little Cat Lodge’s interior designer Loren Daye of LoveIsEnough looked at après aesthetics from around the world and throughout history when dreaming up the interiors. “We all started to look at Japan’s winter refuges, 1950s and ’60s Western Massachusetts ski culture, and rural cabins throughout the Alps,” she tells Vogue. “The common thread in Little Cat’s design was experiential. Like what’s ski culture? What’s mountain culture? What’s village culture? That Venn diagram of experience seemed to have resonance in Hokkaido’s onsen, Alpine slopes, and the 1960s Berkshires.”
LoveIsEnough tried to use local makers as much as possible: a nearby woodworker, Megan Offer, made all the oak and maple furniture for the guest rooms. A local artist, Esme Shapiro, is behind the cheery nature paintings that dot the walls. Meanwhile, the main bar is a pebble dash terrazzo, made from local river rocks. “We try to embrace a truly regional approach in our projects,” says Daye.
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